Lucknow: High drama was witnessed on Tuesday when vigilance department sleuths searched the house of suspended IG-rank officer Amitabh Thakur, who is locked in a tussle with SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, in a disproportionate assets case.

A member of the Uttar Pradesh vigilance department team was seen darting out of the residence with a sheaf of papers in his hands and being confronted by an angry Thakur, a senior IPS officer. Thakur wanted his documents to be returned but the vigilance sleuth refused to do so.